Rejected suitors take to roaming as naturally as unhived bees; and the business to which he had cynically devoted himself was in many ways congenial to Venn.

求婚遭到拒绝的人，很自然地就像失去了蜂巢的蜜蜂，只得到处游荡；而维恩愤世嫉俗操起的这行当在许多方面都很适合他。